Accidental Food Bank Feeds Thousands On North Shore

NORTH ANDOVER, MA — This is an accident of the best kind, a story about two men who started a food program, by accident. Today, the Accidental Food Bank provides food for thousands of people on the North Shore.

It’s a typical morning for John Tierney and Stu McNeil at the North Andover Stop and Shop. Five or six days each week they’re here, and at two other grocery stores, collecting food that’s approaching its sell-by date.

They started 10 years ago after coming to Stop and Shop to pick up some goodies for a community coffee group the two retirees were in. What the store manager told them changed their lives. “He goes, I’m throwing three to four dumpsters of food away a month. He goes, it’s killing me. It just breaks my heart to do it,” Stu recalled.

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